On Saturday Electric Carnival is taking over half of Digbeth – the HMV Institute, Custard Factory, Air, Heath Mill Lane car park and the Rainbow venues – and they’ve got space for 9,000 people (1,500 more than last year). That’s kinda big. Via Digbeth is Good, who also have a map of road closures for … [Read more…]
Special guests Zu93, Electric Wizard and Secret Chiefs 3 will be joined by a whole bunch of others (with more to announce) plus art, film, panel discussions and, predictably enough, cake. Full list here. I’m pleased to say I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone on the bill. Last year I recognised a couple of names and … [Read more…]
The theme for this year’s BASS Festival (9-25 June, all over Birmingham) is revolution: Through music, dance, spoken word and theatre REVOLUTION will be explored in terms of physical movement, music as a weapon of change and celebrating the creators of radical new music and styles. There’s a press release here which has more info … [Read more…]
In the past couple of days the two festivals have posted retrospectives. Flatpack have posted a slideshow of photos (with more on their Flickr account) . While Fierce have rounded up their 2011 festival with a nice, photo-heavy blog post and some links to things others have written about them. They sign off the post … [Read more…]
As we prepare to bid farewell to Ikon Eastside ahead of it’s April closure, they’re gearing up for a rather special three night music festival, Rites of Spring, from 7 – 9 April. Celebrating the venue’s five year contribution to Birmingham’s cultural scene, the festival welcomes headliners Modified Toy Orchestra, Martin Creed and his band … [Read more…]
Flatpack and Fierce have barely begun, but I’ve already been taking a sneak peek of a few of the things they’ve got going on, including Symphony of a Missing Room, the Vintage Mobile Cinema and a trip over to the Dirty End. Yesterday morning I headed over to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, for a … [Read more…]
It’s festivals a gogo with the Fierce and Flatpack festivals kicking off today with a whole load of interesting stuff coming to Birmingham between now and Sunday. You’ll no doubt have done the decent thing and booked up a load of tickets for both of these already but, if not, there should still be time. … [Read more…]
There’s a few ways to get involved in this summer’s Moseley Festival, which is happening for ten days from 8 – 17 July. The Moseley Festival is the third of its kind, celebrating arts, culture and music in arguably one of Birmingham’s cutest suburbs. This years festival is taking place at various locations around Moseley, … [Read more…]